Submitted by Prof. Dr. Khin Ni Ni Thein, Secretary of the Advisory Group (AG)

and Member of the National Water Resources Committee (NWRC)

Meeting between the H.E. Vice President U Nyan Tun, Chairperson of NWRC and the Advisory Group of NWRC

AG of NWRC

2nd Oct 2015 DCA Meeting Room, Yangon

National Rain Water Harvesting Campaign &

Community-based Flood Mapping Campaign

Combined Plan of Action

Floods 2015 July and August

Floods 2015 July and August

Floods 2015 July and August

Floods 2015 July and August

Floods 2015 July and August

Floods 2015 July and August

Floods 2015 July and August

Floods 2015 July and August

Floods 2015 July and August

Elevation, longitudinal Profile

Flood Map

Kale situation

extracted from SRTM 90 M

Watershed Name | Watershed Area Yazagyo dam | 386.66 sq.km Manipur River | 11550.93 sq.km Kale Basin | 23803.90 sq.km The remaining area | 11866.31 sq.km Kale basin = (Yazagyo dam + Manipur river + the remaining part)

Below are links for Watershed+River Networks Google Earth KMZ files Yazagyo watershed https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByubM-9UkY9uZng0NDZzbDFfSG8/view?usp=sharing

Landslides ရာဇျဂလဆညအထက တြလြေခာငးဖားရ ေျမျပေရကန

(စကတငဘာလ ၁၆ရက၊ ၂၀၁၅) အေသးစတေျမပရ အျမငေပ ၄၀၀၀ ရေခာငးထသ႕ ျပကသည႕ မကႏာျပင ဧရယာမားမာ ဧက ၁၀၀၀ ေကာရ၊ ေရကန ၅ခ၊ ေရကန အၾကးမာ ေပ ၃၅၀၀ ေကာရ

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Floods 2015 Close Group - တာ၀နသ ျမနမာ GIS RS ပညာရငမား ဥးေဆာငသညအဖြ႕မ ေလ႕လာထားခကအရ

ေခာငးေဟာငးမားပတ ၍ ေခာငးသစမား ေပၚလာေၾကာငး ေတြ႕ရရပါသည။

Min Bu District

Three Components in Disaster Management

Public Assistance Mutual Support

Self Help

Public Assistance

12 Regions out of 15 were being affected!

National Flood Hazard Mapping Campaign

Role of Women in Plan of Action

1. Disseminating information precise and understandable 2. Capacity Building & Outreach 3. Community-based activities

Capacity Building Plan for

Community-based FHM Activity

Creating Enabling Environment

in line with the National Water Policy

Relationships between Administration and Organizations

Students Drawing the Green Village Plan

Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will guide us (the world) to achieve sustainability

Droughts and El NIÑO Temporary rain failure forces people to migrate; it pushes them into the

clutches of moneylenders as crops fail and this forces them to sell their

only means of survival - their livestock.

This is the beginning of the spiral of destitution. Drought is not only

about lack of water or failing crops; it is also about non-availability of

fodder.

Rebuilding rural economies becomes difficult in this adverse cycle of

impoverishment.

Each drought destroys the rural community’s ability to cope. It makes it

weaker and more disabled to deal with the vagaries of monsoon.

Drought is not a temporary phenomenon. It is permanent and long

lasting and it eats away at the very insides of the country.

Source: CSE study

It is for this reason that we must have a long-term plan to deal with

monsoon failure and water shortages.

The fact is we must also do this when the monsoons are being impacted

by climate change.

In other words, we no longer have just the natural variability - and that

itself was extreme - to deal with in our monsoon.

We also have to understand how this natural variability is being

accentuated because of anthropogenic (human-made) climate change.

Source: CSE study

Droughts and El NIÑO

Relief, Recovery and Rehabilitation

But we also need to build Resilience အနာဂါတ အတြက ခႏငရည တညေဆာကျခငး

National Rain Water Harvesting Campaign

A far-sighted and much needed initiative to secure nation’s water wealth directed by the Chairperson of the National Water Resources Committee (NWRC) SCOPE From a single rain drop - to the forests - to the Rivers – all water bodies - to Villages and Cities - Urban Built Environment - to Engineering Practices - to Agricultural Practices - to Industrial Practices - to New Consumer Behavior - to individual water ethics - to national spirit in water saving!

Single Drops of Water Make the Mighty

Economy!

မးေရစကကေလးမား က

ေအာငျမငေသာ စးပြါးေရး

က ျဖစေပၚလာေစသည။

Combined Plan of Action

Proposed Budget 2 million us$ directly provided for flood and landslide victims by

means of drinking water ponds, water purification equipment, shelters, and for transferring water saving techniques – including storage reservoirs, ponds, tanks, etc., etc.

1 million us$ for community-based flood mapping, relevant data collection and skill training

2 million us$ for prevention measures for future and further disasters – aftermath disaster prevention

(Note: This can be budgeted from the Government of Myanmar’s central floods and landslides recovery fund. For example, AIRBM Project shared 5 million us$ towards this purpose.)

Why do we need to spend money on

Prevention of future and further disasters?

အနာဂါတ အတြက ခႏငရည တညေဆာကျခငး

Time Line (5 years from 2015) Nov 2015 – Nov 2016 Immediate activities

Nov 2016 – Nov 2017 Planning for medium and long-term activities

Nov 2017-Nov 2020 Implementation of the medium and long-term plans

Note: “National Water Vision aims to achieve by 2040”, which also in line with the Myanmar National Water Policy.

Causes

Deforestation

Land use changes – Agricultural expansion

Urbanization

Uncontrolled mining activities

Climate Change

Groundwater over extraction

Population Growth

Life style changes

Remedies Develop Water = Grow Trees and Create Watersheds

Check Dam Safety of existing Dams

Increase efficiency and capacity of existing reservoirs - desiltation

Implement IWRM

Implement the National Water Policy

Implement Combined Plan of Action

Mobilize peoples with the help of women Organizations - Example,

Women Organizations Network (WON), Water Mothers, MWEA,

MWA, MCWA, and other women associations

Mobilize the peoples of Myanmar to participate in the Rain Water

Harvesting and Community-based Flood Mapping National

Campaigns whole heartedly!

Methodology Providing much needed water storage devices – develop water

for locals by tree planting and watershed creation

Providing much needed water knowledge and appropriate technology to locals

Categorize four ecological regions across Myanmar: 1. Dry Zone, 2. Hilly Region, 3. Delta and 4. wet plain region and provide suitable means of water storage and water development techniques – example, rain water harvesting technologies, underground dams, sand dams,

All 15 Administrative Regions will be participating in the campaign

Central Campaign Committee should be established and trained volunteers will be used for out reach and actual implementation

Partnership building with INGOs, LNGOs, Religious Leaders, Volunteer Organizations and Local and International donors will be forged. Myanmar should invest first 5 million USD!

ေရ မခငမား အဖြ႕ Water Mothers Organization

Women at the Forefront of Climate Change Adaptation in Myanmar

ေရ မခငမား အဖြ႕ Water Mothers အမးသမးအားလး ပးေပါငးပါ၀ငမႈ Inclusive Approach

Since 2012!

ေရ မခငမား အဖြ႕ Water Mothers အမးသမးအားလး ပးေပါငးပါ၀ငမႈ Inclusive Approach

မးေရ စေဆာငး သးစြေရး လႈ႕ေဆာမႈ Rain Water Harvesting National Campaign

Since 2012

Household Water Purification System Caretaker Training for Water Mothers – Bago Region

Please remember!

WATER is everybody’s business

Picture Source: Scientific American ေကးဇးတငပါတယရင

Thank You Very Much for Your Time and Attention